Rodney Jefferson

Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, whose dispute with his successor has dominated local politics in recent weeks, will lead a new nationalist party that will contest an election in May.

Leaving the EU has hardened the divisions between the U.K.’s constituent nations and there’s a growing sense that things will come to a head.

Angus Grossart, who founded a Scottish merchant bank and became one of the country’s most prominent names in finance and business over the next five decades, has died. He was 85.

The sold-out shows, packed restaurants and heaving pubs might suggest Edinburgh’s annual arts festival had evaded the UK’s cost-of-living crisis and the constant drip of bad news about the economy. But what’s being called Britain’s summer of discontent has hit the streets of the Scottish capital.

Scotland’s public spending deficit shrank after revenue from the North Sea oil industry jumped to the highest in eight years and helped offset the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

An independent Scotland would transition to its own currency overseen by a new central bank, according to the latest Scottish government paper designed to build the case for breaking away from the rest of the UK.

The IRA is upending the auto industry worldwide as it transitions to electric vehicles. The window for the UK to respond is closing fast.

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The former European Council president was involved in managing the Greek crisis and the fallout from Brexit. His next challenge is to steer his homeland in a new direction.

John Swinney had tried to quit front line politics on numerous occasions, he said, by the time he announced he was bowing out last year. Now, it looks like he’s back and facing one of the biggest challenges of his career.